I am a composer of dynamic and innovative experimental music based in Sydney, Australia. I have worked as a freelance composer and producer across a wide variety of genres including orchestral, chamber, electronic, installation and film composition. My work is particularly influenced by landscapes and the physics of the natural world and universe. Composition provides a way to express and understand the world around me and an outlet for the sounds conceived by my imagination.

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Latest News and Activities:

Peter McNamara's new work Land of Cruelty for orchestra and oboe soloist will be premiered by the Sydney Symphony's amazing oboe performer Ms. Shefali Pryor and the Sutherland Shire Symphony Orchestra at the Sutherland Entertainment Centre on Sunday December 8th 2019.

Sideband's next innovative concert Sideband: Renaissance, will occur at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Tuesday September 17 2019, in which the second movement of Peter McNamara's song cycle De Rerum Natura and works by other emerging composers will be premiered.

Peter McNamara was saddened to hear of the passing of Roger Riordan AM. Mr. Riordan along with his wife established the Cybec Foundation, which financially supported the 21st Century Composers' Program, in which Peter McNamara participated in 2003. He was a great supporter of the arts and will be dearly missed.